English

Media Literacy
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/media-literacy-examining-world-966.html

Examining Transcendentalism through Popular Culture
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/examining-transcendentalism-through-popular-320.html

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History

Teaching World History through Popular Culture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jba5HsWDsA


Using Popular Culture To Teach About Japan
http://aboutjapan.japansociety.org/content.cfm/using_pop_culture_to_teach_about_japan?StartRow=11&SearchNum=10


Integrating Music in History Education
http://www.rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/cho3023l5.htm

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Science

Where Science meets Popular Culture
http://www.mrscienceshow.com/

Using Pop Culture to Introduce Biology
http://www.britannica.com/bps/additionalcontent/18/34156729/Using-Pop-Culture-To-Teach-Introductory-Biology

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Math

Math in popular culture (Talk of the Nation/Science Friday)
http://www.msri.org/communications/articles/ShowArticleInfo/81/show_article

Websites: Mathematics In Various Media

• Television show "Numb3rs"
• A guide to Mathematics in the Movies
• Mathematics inFuturama
• Mathematics inThe Simpsons
• Math Comics: http://www.mathcartoons.com/fogelfroe.html; http://www.trottermath.net/humor/cartoons.html; http://www.simonsingh.net/Mathematics_Cartoons.html

Mathematics in Music:

• "That's Mathematics," Tom Lehrer, sung with "Funny Math Problems"
• "New Math," by Tom Lehrer--Look closely at the process involved in this subtraction problem. Is it really as complicated as he makes it seem?
• Rhythms and Ratios
• Songs for Teaching Math
• "Math is a Wonderful Thing," by Jack Black

Mathematics as Art:

• M.C. Escher, http://www.mathacademy.com/pr/minitext/escher/
• Art and Architecture
• Sources for Number Activities
• National Geographic Interactive Consumption Calculator

Websites: Curriculum And Lesson Plans

• The Simpsons
• **Stand and Deliver**
• Donald in Mathmagic Land
• Lewis Carroll
• Math Sports Project

Books (mathematics as popular culture)

• Sir Cumference books
• Lasky, Katherine, The Librarian who Measured the Earth
• Scieszka, Jon, The Math Curse
• Tang, Gregory, The Grapes of Math